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| Kcaicedo Registered user Username: Kcaicedo Post Number: 11 Registered: 11-2014 |
Hi Everyone, As I do the "Storacles of Prophecy" (Amazing Facts) "study" with my husband's uncle, I came across something possibly minor, but still made be angry. The SDA study said that God promised the children of Israel that if they would serve and obey him, then he would remove all sickness from them. Is that promise in scripture (they didn't provide a reference) or is that from EGW? They proclaim that God kept that promise and the scripture used is Ps 105.37. It said that when God's people entered into the promised land, there was not one sick or feeble person in the whole nation. I didn't question the verse at first, I assumed it wasn't out of context (NEVER assume, right?!). After the SDA "study", I read Psalm 105. As you may know, it speaks in sequence of God and how He delivered His people out of Egypt. Verse 37, in particular points to them leaving Egypt healthy because God protected them from all the plagues & death of the first born. That verse is not referring to their health as they entered into the promised land. The point of this in the SDA "study" was to explain how important our health is to God. Also, this "study" is from Amazing Facts and I see that group everywhere and on TV. I was surprised that they could have so blatant an error. The "study" does encourage us to be like the Bereans, then provide us with this...I am learning not to be surprised by this sort of thing. I am not well read on EGW, but I wondered since this scripture was taken completely out of context...Did she say this and they needed to find a verse to defend it? | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 15505 Registered: 12-2003  |
I can't find references now, but God did not promise that the Israelites would never be sick. In fact, Leviticus has a whole chapter devoted to describing the ritual cleansing of "leprosy" (meaning any kind of skin eruption), mold, and contact with people suffering from bodily emissions suggesting diarrhea, etc. The law would not have contained methods for containing diseases if they never got sick. That being said, God did sustain them in various ways, and He did say that if they were obedient, He would spare them from the diseases of the Egyptians. Exodus 15:26 says,
Our health is not a central thing to God in the way Adventists explain it. He promises to sustain us and to provide for us, but He specifically refused to remove Paul's "thorn in the flesh" (2 Cor. 12) even with Paul asking three times. God said, "My strength is perfected in weakness." The things that happen to us are God's tools in our lives to learn to trust Him. He does sustain us, but He doesn't promise we won't get sick. Colleen | ||
| 1john2v27nlt Registered user Username: 1john2v27nlt Post Number: 566 Registered: 5-2009 |
The apostle Paul counseled Timothy to 'take a little wine for your stomach's sake & your frequent illnesses.' So it seems that Timothy was not free from frequent illnesses even though he was being obedient to his calling from the Lord & serving Him. Surely he could have called on the elders of the church for anointing & prayer for healing, as James instructed. When you read through the entire bible for yourself, you find out all the things SDAs avoid or omit. |
